Need help with .htaccess rewrite

Hiyee

I've been googling for a whole day now and can't find a decent
example/guide/howto on the various variables, and functions available
for Rewriting and Redirecting using only a .htaccess file.

I have one host with multiple domain names (it's hosted, so I need to
make changes in the .htaccess file)

The host is domain1.com, and what I'm hoping to achieve is just to
redirect hits to the root of domain2.com to domain2.com/subdir and
still present in the browser as domain2/subdir (At present, hits to
the root of domain2.com present as domain1.com, but domain2.com/subdir
works fine)

All the rewrite rules I've tried either rewrite my entire domain1.com
to domain2.com as well, or don't present in the browser as
domain2.com/subdir, but rather only as domain2.com

And ideas where I can find some decent doc's on writing .htaccess files
as I'm aware I need to do some exclusions to get this working

Thanks

Roy

rverrips wrote:
> The host is domain1.com, and what I'm hoping to achieve is just to
> redirect hits to the root of domain2.com to domain2.com/subdir and
> still present in the browser as domain2/subdir

So you're looking for an external (visible) redirection?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.com
RewriteRule ^$ /subdir/ [R=301,L]


to keep this internal, you could use

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/
RewriteRule ^(.*) /subdir/$1 [L]

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Robert

Thanks for the quick reply Robert

I'm not sure what you mean with internal and external - Both the hosts
are on the same apache server ... (internal, no?)

Could you explain why the www is in brackets, and what the ^ and ?
represent?

Thanks

Roy

rverrips wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Robert
>
> I'm not sure what you mean with internal and external - Both the hosts
> are on the same apache server ... (internal, no?)
>
> Could you explain why the www is in brackets, and what the ^ and ?
> represent?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy

^(www\.)?domain2\.com

This is a regular expression. The ^ means that this is the beginning of the
url string. The ? means match this if it occurs zero or one times. The
"www." is inside brackets to indicate that the ? is referring to the whole
string "www." Without the brackets, it would refer only to the ".".
So this expression says match www.domain2.com or domain2.com but do not
match something.domain2.com or something.www.domain2.com.

HTH

Regards
Paul

Thanks Paul, The explaination of ? and ^ helped me a lot and I've been
able to do what I was hoping for ...

Kudos

Roy